Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

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• Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Nature

  'Some Reasons Why' (1881) pt. 8 'The New Testament' in 'The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll' (1915) vol. 2, p. 315

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• Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Economic Inequality, Political

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.236, Library of Alexandria

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• The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Hands, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.886, Library of Alexandria

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• Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Respect, Rights, Giving

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll", Vol VII, 2009.

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• Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Depression

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1681, Library of Alexandria

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• Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Illumination, Drunk, Support

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• Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Atheism, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

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  Prayer, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1312, Library of Alexandria

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• It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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  Education, Wisdom, School

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  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Sports

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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• The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

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  Men, Intellectual, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

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  Too Much, Enough, Ifs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1014, Library of Alexandria

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• The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Revenge, Heart, Men

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• The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

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  Eye, Men, Bending

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• ...in every religion the priest insists on five things -
  First: There is a God.
  Second: He has made known his will.
  Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
  Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
  Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

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  Messages, Firsts, Failing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2445, Library of Alexandria

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• They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

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  Judging, Important, Deeds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.287, Library of Alexandria

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• Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

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  Kindness, Blow, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1588, Library of Alexandria

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• It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.

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  Christian, Country, Book

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• All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

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  Book, Eye, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

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  Jesus, Father, Nice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.776, Library of Alexandria

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• Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.

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  Atheist, Wall, Light

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.929, Library of Alexandria

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• We rise by lifting others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Helping Others, Society, Public Service

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